Adult and Continuing Education research collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes monographs, periodicals, papers, reports, and studies from the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and other organizations ranging from 1919 to 2008 regarding the theory, methods, and practice of adult and continuing education. A large number of the papers and reports in this collection have been signed by the author.
Dates
- Creation: 1919-2008
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Literary rights, including copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their legal heirs and assigns. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections. The publisher must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Extent
6 Cubic Feet (12 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged in the following series and subseries:
Series 1: Adult and Continuing Education papers, reports and studies, 1953-2008
Subseries 1.1: Notes and Essays on Education for Adults, 1953-1971
Subseries 1.2: Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults occasional papers, 1965-1984
Subseries 1.3: Center for the Study of LIberal Education for Adults reports, 1953-1968
Subseries 1.4: United Nations papers, reports and studies, 1963-2008
Subseries 1.5: Adult and Continuing Education papers, reports and studies, 1958-2007
Subseries 1.6: Adult community education conference proceedings and pamphlets
Subseries 1.7: Indiana Association for Adult and Continuing Education records
Series 2: Adult and Continuing Education books and periodicals, 1919-2007
Subseries 2.1: Adult and Continuing Education books, 1927-2007
Subseries 2.2: Adult and Continuing Education periodicals, 1919-2005
Custodial History
This collection was received by Archives and Special Collections as a donation from the Ball State University Department of Educational Studies on 2012/04/17. The Ball State University Department of Educational Studies received this collection as a gift from Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center on approximately 2011/10/26. The material in this collection was donated to the Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center by Alexander Charters and William Rivera.
Separated Materials
Books autographed by the authors were removed from this collection and catalogued individually. You can search for those items and additional titles on adult and continuing education by conducting an advanced search in CardCat.
https://liblink.bsu.edu/cgi-bin/login.pl
To limit your search to autographed adult and continuing education titles, select "Archives and Special Collection" in the "Location" field.
Processing Information
Collection processing completed 2012/03/12 by Liz Peterson and Stephen Jones. EAD finding aid created 2013/01/02 by Julie Hausknecht. EAD finding aid revised 2013/02/11 by Stephen Jones. EAD finding aid revised 2014/05/28 by Kasey Mock.
- Title
- Adult and Continuing Education research collection
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie Indiana 47306 USA
765-285-5078
libarchives@bsu.edu
